It’s not often that you get details about the acquisition of private companies, but the recent acquisition of a stake in Innogames by Sweden’s MTG is a rare counter-example. In an extremely detailed official announcement, Innogames stated...

In April 2016, lots of sites reported that Germany’s Bigpoint, one of the pioneers of browser and F2P gaming, was bought by Chinese firm Youzu Interactive, for Eur80m ($89.7m). They bought into the PR spin that this...

Korean publisher Nexon, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, has built a 33% "hostile" position in Taiwanese firm Gamania

Earlier this week, Japan’s Gree bought OpenFeint for $104 million. The nice thing about Japanese transactions is that listed companies have to give details of the transaction. Here are the details they gave about the underlying revenues and...

The acquisition of Chillingo by EA last week set tongues wagging, particularly when Angry Bird’s developer Rovio went on an aggressive PR campaign to emphasise that the rights to Angry Birds were not part of the deal....

Yesterday, I wrote a post entitled Ten games companies that are blessed. Three hours later, the rumour broke that Electronic Arts had acquired Chillingo, the British iPhone publisher that I had put on the list. The price...

I was reading the TechCrunch report of Disney’s acquisition of Playdom and this comment leaped out at me: “The sad truth is that 90% of employees got nothing immediately from this deal. 90% of Playdom employees joined...